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Mindbender combines live electronic dance music and painting with new media and progressive cultural ideas. The result is an integrated sense of purpose, meaning, belonging and celebration. The intention of Mindbender is to create a container to reconnect with our global tribe, and to witness larger patterns of positive change during this epoch of stress and transformation. We seek to bridge the personal isolation which contributes to the apathy, political helplessness and tuning-out that many suffer from today. We continue to create inspiring cultural events that open the psyche to broader philosophical and psychological views, while celebrating with a community that shares this desire.
Personal empowerment is created when we experience a sense of belonging and participation within archetypal rituals involving costumes, dance, storytelling and visual art. Once internalized, this sense of empowerment provides the energy to move forward, connecting kindred spirits. This personal empowerment is the necessary first step which makes political and cultural activism possible and enjoyable.
Artists, musicians and presenters will be sharing their message and how it reflects an underlying order and interconnectivity found everywhere in people… a global unified tribe. Our desire is to be an alternative culture node radiating to various venues and local communities throughout the United States. We are also formulating plans to host several events throughout the United States in the future.
In January 2007, coinciding with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, we created the first Mindbender. This event integrated the various disciplines of leading-edge film, consciousness studies, and discussion of individual and collective trance states as they affect ecological awareness. Later in the evening, hundreds celebrated with dance to renowned electronica DJ, Bassnectar. Featured guests included writer Daniel Pinchbeck, filmmaker Rod Mann, noted author and professor Dr. Ralph Metzner, the visionary artist Carey Thompson, and Stacia Butterfield (the director of Grof Transpersonal Training).
We’re creating Mindbender 2008, held January 18, 2008 at Club Suede in Park City, Utah. This event coincides with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City and the International Outdoor Retailers Show in Salt Lake City.
For Mindbender 2008, our guest list includes:
Presenters:
Josh Shore from Guerrilla News Network- www.gnn.tv. Discussing the need for accurate journalism.
Rod Mann presenting a trailer for his latest film, Eschatology and his interactive piece DDA entheogen.tv
Eschatology (“the end of times”) is a documentary feature film which will be released adjunct with a software/online platform in the fall of 2008. The film Eschatology will be interviewing three categories of the human family and how the perspectives of the current period in time relate to the worldview of the whole. The first will be major world religions, in depth perspectives from Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Muslim faiths. The second section will focus through the perspective of science/technology with interviews on global warming, mass extinction, sustainable solutions, economics, and the most recent studies in mind/brain research. The third section will be looking at the indigenous perspectives and how the many Cosmo-visions and worldviews of the Navajo, Hopi, Mayan, Shuar, Shipibo, Huichol, Aboriginal, and others; perceive this time in history and envision our challenges and solutions. We will look through the perspectives of faith/vision and mystic, the instruments of the microscope/telescope, and the ecological wisdom coming from the sacred plants. The software program offers a solution to the dismembered psyche in the postmodern world by providing a user-friendly interface for developing a daily practice of intention, meditation, compassion, gratefulness, and action.
A gallery with paintings and sculpture by artists:
Xavi: www.podcollective.com
Sunny Strasburg: www.sunnystrasburg.com
Martin Stensaas: www.martinstensaas.com
Music line up:
Bassnectar: www.bassnectar.net
David Starfire: davidstarfire.com
Wolfie: www.djwolfie.com
The Dub Scouts: www.dubscouts.com
Interactive VJ and live painting:
Xavi: www.podcollective.com
Phong and Josh Shore: www.illuminated.com www.podcollective.com
A bar will be ongoing throughout the event. There will be a catered dinner offered prior to the main event which will provide a round-table setting for participants to interact and engage with one another as well as our presenters. The event will begin with presentations and discussion, followed by music and VJ art. The gallery will be available throughout the evening, as well as a photo shoot area and informational displays.
Mindbender has become an annual event and is gaining the momentum and spirit it needs to grow into something amazing. Whenever there is a gathering of astonishing people including artists, visionaries and participants something synergistic is bound to happen. To solidify its’ foundation requires the support from you and other sponsors committed to this project’s ongoing success.
Contact Info:
Brandie Hardman
406-370-4902
epnarproductions@yahoo.com
Sunny Strasburg
801-641-8140
sunnys@jps.net
Thanks for all your support!
Mindbender combines live electronic dance music and painting with new media and progressive cultural ideas. The result is an integrated sense of purpose, meaning, belonging and celebration. The intention of Mindbender is to create a container to reconnect with our global tribe, and to witness larger patterns of positive change during this epoch of stress and transformation. We seek to bridge the personal isolation which contributes to the apathy, political helplessness and tuning-out that many suffer from today. We continue to create inspiring cultural events that open the psyche to broader philosophical and psychological views, while celebrating with a community that shares this desire.
Personal empowerment is created when we experience a sense of belonging and participation within archetypal rituals involving costumes, dance, storytelling and visual art. Once internalized, this sense of empowerment provides the energy to move forward, connecting kindred spirits. This personal empowerment is the necessary first step which makes political and cultural activism possible and enjoyable.
Artists, musicians and presenters will be sharing their message and how it reflects an underlying order and interconnectivity found everywhere in people… a global unified tribe. Our desire is to be an alternative culture node radiating to various venues and local communities throughout the United States. We are also formulating plans to host several events throughout the United States in the future.
In January 2007, coinciding with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, we created the first Mindbender. This event integrated the various disciplines of leading-edge film, consciousness studies, and discussion of individual and collective trance states as they affect ecological awareness. Later in the evening, hundreds celebrated with dance to renowned electronica DJ, Bassnectar. Featured guests included writer Daniel Pinchbeck, filmmaker Rod Mann, noted author and professor Dr. Ralph Metzner, the visionary artist Carey Thompson, and Stacia Butterfield (the director of Grof Transpersonal Training).
We’re creating Mindbender 2008, held January 18, 2008 at Club Suede in Park City, Utah. This event coincides with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City and the International Outdoor Retailers Show in Salt Lake City.
For Mindbender 2008, our guest list includes:
Presenters:
Josh Shore from Guerrilla News Network- www.gnn.tv. Discussing the need for accurate journalism.
Rod Mann presenting a trailer for his latest film, Eschatology and his interactive piece DDA entheogen.tv
Eschatology (“the end of times”) is a documentary feature film which will be released adjunct with a software/online platform in the fall of 2008. The film Eschatology will be interviewing three categories of the human family and how the perspectives of the current period in time relate to the worldview of the whole. The first will be major world religions, in depth perspectives from Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Muslim faiths. The second section will focus through the perspective of science/technology with interviews on global warming, mass extinction, sustainable solutions, economics, and the most recent studies in mind/brain research. The third section will be looking at the indigenous perspectives and how the many Cosmo-visions and worldviews of the Navajo, Hopi, Mayan, Shuar, Shipibo, Huichol, Aboriginal, and others; perceive this time in history and envision our challenges and solutions. We will look through the perspectives of faith/vision and mystic, the instruments of the microscope/telescope, and the ecological wisdom coming from the sacred plants. The software program offers a solution to the dismembered psyche in the postmodern world by providing a user-friendly interface for developing a daily practice of intention, meditation, compassion, gratefulness, and action.
A gallery with paintings and sculpture by artists:
Xavi: www.podcollective.com
Sunny Strasburg: www.sunnystrasburg.com
Martin Stensaas: www.martinstensaas.com
Music line up:
Bassnectar: www.bassnectar.net
David Starfire: davidstarfire.com
Wolfie: www.djwolfie.com
The Dub Scouts: www.dubscouts.com
Interactive VJ and live painting:
Xavi: www.podcollective.com
Phong and Josh Shore: www.illuminated.com www.podcollective.com
A bar will be ongoing throughout the event. There will be a catered dinner offered prior to the main event which will provide a round-table setting for participants to interact and engage with one another as well as our presenters. The event will begin with presentations and discussion, followed by music and VJ art. The gallery will be available throughout the evening, as well as a photo shoot area and informational displays.
Mindbender has become an annual event and is gaining the momentum and spirit it needs to grow into something amazing. Whenever there is a gathering of astonishing people including artists, visionaries and participants something synergistic is bound to happen. To solidify its’ foundation requires the support from you and other sponsors committed to this project’s ongoing success.
Contact Info:
Brandie Hardman
406-370-4902
epnarproductions@yahoo.com
Sunny Strasburg
801-641-8140
sunnys@jps.net
Thanks for all your support!
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